Line of succession to Henry VIII
- Line of succession to Henry VIII
Assuming regular male-preference primogeniture (as is in place today), and assuming that each of his marriages was considered legitimate, the below would be the beginnings of the line of succession to the throne of Henry VIII upon his death on 29 January 1547:
Actually, any such line of succession was overridden by the Succession to the Crown Act, 1543, which named Edward, Mary and Elizabeth as successors of Henry VIII.
All three of Henry VIII's children (Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I) succeeded to the throne in turn, and died childless. Despite her clearly inferior claim to the throne, Lady Jane Grey was proclaimed Queen upon the death of Edward VI in 1553: the principal objection to the future Queen Mary was her Catholicism, and Grey's claim was justified on the basis that Mary and Elizabeth (despite having been restored to the throne by the 1543 Act) were still legally deemed illegitimate, and that the descendants of Margaret Tudor were ineligible for the English throne due to their proximity to the Scottish throne (the latter claim had some basis in Henry VIII's will). Grey's proclamation as Queen was soon revoked after nine days of (disputed) rule.
Upon the deaths of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley in 1567 and Mary, Queen of Scots in 1587, their places in the order of succession passed to their son James VI of Scotland, who acceeded to the English throne as James I in 1603, thus uniting the monarchies (though not the sovereign states) of England and Scotland under the House of Stuart.
ee also
* Line of succession to the British Throne
* List of heirs to the English and British thrones
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